{"id":7431,"date":"2011-11-14T15:39:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T20:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=7431"},"modified":"2011-11-14T15:40:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T20:40:25","slug":"harry-potter-director-to-take-on-dr-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/harry-potter-director-to-take-on-dr-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter Director To Take On Dr. Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DrWho.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7432\" title=\"DrWho\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DrWho.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DrWho.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DrWho-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Variety is reporting that David Yates, who directed the last four Harry Potter films is now working with BBC to bring Dr. Who to the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>He says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking at writers now. We&#8217;re  going to spend two to three years to get it right,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It needs  quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also made it known that the film adaptation of the series would not be a follow up to any of the current television material. It would be it&#8217;s own franchise and a fresh approach to the material.<\/p>\n<p>Writers have not been chosen yet, but Yates says they are looking at writers the the US and UK.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We  want a British sensibility, but having said that, Steve Kloves wrote  the Potter films and captured that British sensibility perfectly, so we  are looking at American writers too,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What are your thoughts on this? Would a Doctor Who movie work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety is reporting that David Yates, who directed the last four Harry Potter films is now working with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7434,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7431\/revisions\/7434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}